Elastic COBOL 18.12 Released

New version 18.12 of Elastic COBOL has been released. Elastic COBOL is the compiler, IDE, debugger and testing environment for transpiling enterprise COBOL applications into Java and deploying them into the Elastic Transaction Platform or Elastic Batch Platform or the Heirloom Platform-as-a-Service.

Elastic COBOL is distributed as an Eclipse Plug-in. Use Check for Updates under the Eclipse Help menu to update a previous version of the Elastic COBOL plug-in. If this is the first time update of Eclipse Elastic COBOL plug-in you may need to use Heirloom PaaS Eclipse Update Site. To add the Elastic COBOL plug-in to new installations of Eclipse, follow instructions on the Heirloom PaaS Download site. After Eclipse install you can use ecobol from the command line or as part of a continuous integration build process.

Features added and issues resolved in v18.12:

Elastic IMS-DB - DBDGEN / PSBGEN utilities within Elastic Transaction Platform runtime library etrans.jar invoked by EBP built-in utilities of the same name have been updated with new features.

Features added and issues resolved in v18.4:

Drag 'n' Drop Installation - login to the Heirloom Download site (Download tab) install Eclipse Interactive Development Environment and then drag and drop the Install icon onto an open Eclipse window.

Features added and issues resolved in v17.9:

COBOL Data Batch Transform - Create data conversion templates and use them to transform a large number of data files from one form (e.g., IBM mainframe physical sequential variable blocked) to another (e.g., Elastic COBOL VDB) with the COBOL Batch Transform.

Record and File Editor - Edit data within files from the Eclipse environment with the COBOL File Editor